Babies Born April 2008

[Nettie]

Welcome Danielle - our babies share a birthday!

Janine - I'm with you. I'm sure my little man smiles at me! I can see it in his eyes. Baloney about the wind thing... I need to express now, but will try to read your story later.

Lucky me, I'm still in PJ's and have had extra sleeps today. Still tired though! Will try to get an early night in too, but Liam has fussy evenings, so it's not always possible. On the other hand, I haven't gotten ANYTHING else done today! Bugger the washing & dishes... I need sleep!!

to everyone else!

[Sequoia]

Hi all

Had Baxter weighed today, he put on 100gms this week, so an improvement from the 80gms he put on the week before. I've started on the fenugreek and I have milk everywhere!

MCHN has made a GP appt for Baxter on Thursday to check that he doesn't have a possible UTI and therefore isn't gaining as much as he should. His fontanelle is tiny bit sunken too so she is concerned about that.

We feed about 8 times a day and he very alert when he is awake so I'm not too worried.

Welcome Danielle, we are a small but friendly group, I'm sure you'll find lots of advice and support.

Nelle - DH says he got a smile last night, not sure if he was winding me up or not....!

Janine - thanks for posting your birth story, and the photos too.

PS - where is Steph?

SG
xo

[alittlegrubi]

I was of the belief that babies smiles are not expressions of emotion until their 2nd or 3rd month.
"Smiles while awake are reflexive reactions to a face or voice rather than an emotional response. However, during the second month, your baby's smiles are a genuine sign of pleasure or friendliness. "
It may not be wind, but it isn't an interactive smile which is what i was getting at - I am looking forward to the point in time where there is genuine interaction.

[Danielle]

thanks Grubi, Ill try what you said about the BF issues I really dont want to give up, I have been using lanolin cream since I started feeding in hossy too,

My baby smiles at me with a wide opened mouth not just a grin, and his eyes look like they are smiling too, but I still doubt weather he is smiling for real yet, but then again he rolled over when he was born on the scales, and he lifts and turns his head as he pleases when someone talks in the room, but he is very very strong being born such a big baby, he is imortal sometimes I think. But I never have these little cute newborn babies hehe my last one was the same!

Thanks for the warm welcome girls I look forward to getting to know everyone else in here too!

[Sharon19270]

There are too many posts for me to try to catch up and do personals to everyone, so just a general hello from me tonight, we where without internet over the weekend due to vandals cutting a cable in our area and it took them all weekend to fix.

so, this is me kind of just checking in and letting you all know that i am still around.

Oliver will be getting weighed this Friday, which is his first since leaving the hospital, I am guessing that he will be over 5kg because he is a little piggly wiggly.

Shoegal, hope everything turns out to be OK with Baxter, it must be worrying for you

[alittlegrubi]

Shoegal Sorry to hear that Baxter hasn't been thriving as much as he should. You need some of Greer's weight gain - Sharon you think Oliver is a piggly wiggly.... Greer's weight gain is definitely piggly wiggly since we left hospital she has put on over half a kilo.
I hope Baxter doesn't have any major problems. We have an appointment with the pediatrician next Tuesday for Greer to see about her tongue-tie. I've also noticed that she has some irratic breathing so I might ask about that too.
Nettie I had an all day PJ day yesterday - I try not to do it, but yesterday I just didn't feel like making the effort.
Well DD is sleeping so I'm going to try to get DS to go to bed now so I can get some much needed sleep since we haven't had any today with all the interuptions and short sleeps cycles.

[Sharon19270]

grubi I am just guessing about Oliver's weight gain, he will be 2.5 weeks on Friday so will be interesting. He has been on 100ml of formula since he was 4 days old, and today we have increased that to 150ml as he was sucking his bottles dry, adminittedly not every one, but enough for me to think he needs more, especially since he would be very unsettled and still wanting to suck the times he did empty bottle.
sarah so far I have been lucky and Oliver hasn't had a 'nighttime' unsettled period, I usually change his bum before his feed at night as sometimes he will fall off to sleep at the end of his bottle, most nights though I manage to cuddle him till he's nearly asleep (but not quite) then put him in his bassinette and he will get himself off to sleep, which is great, if he does have an unsettled period it is usually between 5pm and 7pm or sometime in the morning. I seem to be emotional even when i'm not tired lately.
Nelle I have had a few 'pretend' smiles from Oliver, Jordan was about 5 weeks when I got his first 'happy to see me' smile and it just melts your heart, so I can't wait for Oliver to start smiling at me.

[Nettie]

Wow Sharon - my Liam is 5 days older than your Oliver, but he only takes around 80 mls a feed! Around every 3 hours. I'd think I'm not feeding him enough, but he refuses any more...

For those of you taking fenugreek, how much are you taking? The bottle I got doesn't even mention using it for breastmilk (only respiratory congestion) and suggests 1 tablet 3 times a day...??

Having trouble with Liam spitting up lately but it doesn't seem to be milk - seems to be like phlegm?? Anyone else have this issue? He gets really upset when it happens..

Still in PJ's... tomorrow will be a 'get dressed' day!

[sarah_dobbo2]

Morning all,

How is everyone this morning...

Grubi: I see Kat and Lulu still haven't gone yet. Maybe today...

Sharon:LMAO to your little Oliver farting his way off to sleep. I only change Wyatts bum before a feed, otherwise it will wake him up more. Unless he does a poo and I can usually smell them.

Nettie: I had a PJ day the other day. It was great, but by then end of the day all I wanted to do was get shower. 'Cos my PJ day normal is a cleaning day as well. Got all washing and ironing done.

Well am off to take DS to playgroup. Wyatt asleep at moment in pram let just hope he stays that way for next 2 hrs. PLEASE so I can do stuff with DS...

Cheers All